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What happens when you've spent so long holding everything together that you simply can't anymore?This week, Giovanna sits down with former Editor-in-Chief of HELLO! Magazine Rosie Nixon to talk about the breakdown that became the catalyst for transforming her life.Rosie opens up about motherhood, the pressure to keep going and the guilt that can come with admitting you're struggling. Rosie's book, The PRO Method: Pause, Reflect & Organise, is available now! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Tous les jours, actualité, débats et bonne humeur rythment L'Heure des pros. Ce vendredi, Pascal Praud reçoit Nicolas Sarkozy à l'occasion de la visite du Pape Léon XIV en France.Vous voulez réagir ? Appelez-le 01.80.20.39.21 (numéro non surtaxé) ou rendez-vous sur les réseaux sociaux d'Europe 1 pour livrer votre opinion et débattre sur grandes thématiques développées dans l'émission du jour.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Send us Fan MailYou won't believe how AI (Claude, ChatGPT) is Revolutionising Lorna's business in the mind-body wellness coaching industry.Lorna Hollinger is founder of the Australian Tapping Institute, EFT trainer, international bestselling author and contributor to global bestselling co-author book "Tap Into Your Best Life."Discover how coaches and wellness practitioners can use Claude, ChatGPT and other AI tools THE RIGHT WAY, keeping their work authentic, personal and firmly grounded in their own expertise.We explore how AI can help practitioners:• Create newsletters and social media content in their own voice• Develop useful resources for clients• Organise courses, books and original intellectual property• Prepare clearer briefs for virtual assistants• Streamline policies, processes and business administration• Repurpose podcasts and long-form content• Increase their visibility through books, media and AI searchWe both agree that AI should never replace the practitioner's presence, intuition or relationship with a client. Its real value lies in supporting the back end of the business—giving coaches more time to do the deeply human work they were trained to do.We also discuss the authority that comes from becoming a published author, the benefits of collaborative books and how Lorna has transformed her established EFT knowledge into a series of practical EFT Tapping books and training resources—with AI assisting the research, structure and development process.There are two sides to living your best money life: 1) Clearing the inner blocks that hold you back 2) Embracing new opportunities to prosper in a changing, AI-assisted world.I ask all my guests to share their personal MONEY STORY as part of my ongoing research for exciting new book Tap into Your Best Money Life, Foreword Dr. Joe Vitale.Lorna grew up in an immigrant family with very little, later becoming a solo parent of two boys with no support from their father...and confronting ingrained beliefs about worthiness, women, money and how much a healer or practitioner should charge.✅ Buy the Tap into Your Best Life book on Amazon https://books2read.com/u/3RAGKnNow a global bestseller in 6 countries. Think of Chicken Soup for the Soul applied to EFT Tapping.✅ Connect with Caryl Westmore https://www.carylwestmore.com!✅  Connect with Caryl Westmore on social media!https://www.facebook.com/carylwestmoreauthorhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/bookinsideyouhttps://twitter.com/carylwestmoreukShow Sponsors: Books by Caryl Westmore: [For nonfiction writers]ChatGPT AI Book Writing Formula; [For Coaches and Healers] Tap into Your Best Life 

Hausse soudaine des frais de Sport-étude Entrevue avec Alexandre D’Arocha, mandataire du programme sport-étude soccer et porte-parole de la Coalition des Organise sportif affiliés (OSA) de Sports Étude De Mortagne Regardez aussi cette discussion en vidéo via https://www.qub.ca/videos ou en vous abonnant à QUB télé : https://www.tvaplus.ca/qub ou sur la chaîne YouTube QUB https://www.youtube.com/@qub_radio Pour de l'information concernant l'utilisation de vos données personnelles - https://omnystudio.com/policies/listener/fr

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Identity After Stroke: Who Are You When Your Career Is Gone? Cassie Jewell got back from Iceland on a Monday. On Wednesday, she was demoted from the job she had built her life around. On Friday, she was in an ambulance with a stroke. She was 42, a licensed counsellor supervising behavioural health programs inside a US jail. She loved working with inmates and took two or three extra hours of work home most nights. “My entire identity was my career,” she told me. Within a single week, she lost the role and nearly lost her life. Her story shows something many survivors struggle to name: identity after stroke isn’t only about what your body can still do. It’s about who you are when the roles you relied on are gone. The Week Everything Changed On the Thursday night after the demotion, Cassie stayed up writing a book, determined to prove she still mattered. As she typed, her left hand stopped working. She put it down to tiredness and went to bed. She woke the next afternoon knowing something was wrong but not what. She decided it was a panic attack. Then she remembered her hand. She texted her mum, a nurse practitioner, who told her to call 911 and ask for a hospital with a stroke centre. When the paramedics arrived asking for the stroke patient, Cassie was the one who had answered the door. One side of her face was drooping and her left side was weakening. The diagnosis was an ischaemic stroke in the right basal ganglia, a deep brain region involved in movement, balance and, as she discovered, emotional regulation. If you want to understand this area of the brain better, our episode on lower basal ganglia stroke (https://recoveryafterstroke.com/lower-basal-ganglia-stroke/) goes deeper. Her doctors told her stress contributes to stroke rather than causing it directly, and her cardiologist is still monitoring her heart rhythm. Cassie has her own view: “I was literally burning myself to the ground… and then my brain was like, okay, we’ve had enough. We’re gonna stop you.” It’s a theme we’ve explored before in stroke and stress (https://recoveryafterstroke.com/stroke-and-stress-darren-walker/). When Your Brain Tells You You’re Fine The day after her stroke, Cassie tried to go to work. Her mum stopped her. Later, before she was cleared to drive, she got behind the wheel and bumped another car on her first day out. There’s a name for part of what was happening: anosognosia. It describes reduced awareness of your own deficits after a brain injury, and it’s more often associated with right-hemisphere strokes like Cassie’s. It isn’t stubbornness or denial; it’s a symptom of the injury itself, which is why a survivor can sincerely insist they’re okay while the people around them can see otherwise. Cassie summed up that period in one line: “It’s fine, it’s gonna be fine, even though it clearly, you know, wasn’t fine.” For families, understanding it can turn an argument into patience. Why Identity After Stroke Hits So Hard Identity is built from what we do, the roles we hold, and the stories we tell about ourselves, and a stroke can remove several at once. The more tightly your sense of self is tied to a single role, the larger the gap it leaves. “I lost my career and myself at the same time,” Cassie said. Her first job after returning to work didn’t last. She found she wasn’t as quick as she used to be, and that raised a harder question: “When you measure your self-worth in the things that you do… and then all of a sudden you don’t have your career anymore, who are you?” I recognised that question. Before my own strokes, I was a business owner and a dad, and I couldn’t have told you anything about myself beyond those labels. I didn’t have the vocabulary for identity loss. Guests such as Adam Wolfers (https://recoveryafterstroke.com/cerebral-vasculitis-stroke-identity-change-adam-wolfers/) have described the same collision between who they were and who they now are, and anyone weighing up work decisions may find our episode on changing career after stroke (https://recoveryafterstroke.com/change-career-after-stroke/) useful. The emotional side can catch even a professional off guard. “You’d think as a therapist I would be good with it,” Cassie said, “but I’d prefer to deal with other people’s emotions, not my own.” Our conversation about emotional changes after stroke (https://recoveryafterstroke.com/emotional-changes-after-stroke-sam-hanes/) explores this further. Choosing Who You Become Eighteen months on, Cassie doesn’t have an elevator pitch for who she is. She’s clearer about who she isn’t: someone driven by work. She values free time, her partner, and her dogs. She works full time doing intake assessments and sees private clients, and she describes herself this way: “I’m not as sharp as I was before, but I think I’m kinder.” A stroke, she says, “strips away everything else so you have nothing left but yourself,” and then “you can also choose what your new identity is gonna be.” That choice matters most. For most of my life I did what I’d been trained to do; it took a stroke to show me I could choose differently. Researchers Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun called this post-traumatic growth: positive change that comes from the struggle with a traumatic event, not from the event itself. Cassie put it in her own words: “It’s not about the stroke. It’s about, okay, what am I gonna choose to do now?” It’s the idea at the centre of my book, The Unexpected Way That A Stroke Became The Best Thing That Happened (https://recoveryafterstroke.com/book). Practical Ways to Rebuild Identity After Stroke Drawing on Cassie’s story, here are a few starting points: Separate what you do from who you are. Write down your values, not your job titles. Values survive a stroke better than roles do. Give it time. For me, it took a few years before I could say I liked the person I’d become. Early recovery is rarely the time to decide who you’ll be forever. Let people you trust be your early-warning system. Cassie’s partner noticed her overwork long before she did, and her mum recognised the stroke symptoms. With anosognosia in the picture, other people’s observations matter. Replace old coping habits, don’t just remove them. Recovery is a chance to swap quick fixes for stress for ones that last. Use time as a lens. Cassie is reading Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman and aims to visit all 195 countries. Find people who understand. Other survivors often give you the words for your experience. Our episode on finding purpose after stroke (https://recoveryafterstroke.com/finding-purpose-after-stroke/) is a good next listen. Listen to Cassie’s Full Story Watch or listen to the full conversation with Cassie Jewell. You can find more of her work at cassie-jewell.com (https://cassie-jewell.com). If a stroke has left your world feeling smaller, my new book, Your World Doesn’t Have to Stay This Small (https://mybook.to/yourworld), is a practical guide to rebuilding your life after trauma, even when you’re not ready. If this show has helped you, you can support it at patreon.com/recoveryafterstroke. This blog is for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your doctor before making any changes to your health or recovery plan. Losing My Career and Myself, Then Choosing Who I’d Be – Cassie Jewell (Interview) A stroke at 42 took Cassie Jewell’s career and the identity built on it. What she found underneath changed how she works, loves, and travels. Highlights: 00:00 Introduction – Cassie’s Identity After Stroke01:08 Life Before the Stroke09:35 The Day of the Stroke23:02 Aftermath and Recovery28:41 Hospitalization and Rehabilitation Journey32:04 Dissociation and Identity Post-Stroke38:12 Life After Stroke: Adjusting to New Realities50:32 How Stroke Forced Me to Discover Who I Really Am01:02:14 The Dual Nature of Stroke Experiences Transcript: Introduction – Cassie’s Identity After Stroke Bill Gasiamis (00:00)Hi everyone, welcome back to Recovery After Stroke. I’m Bill Gassiamis. My guest today is Cassie Jewell, a counselor and author from the United States, who in February of 2025 at 42 had an ischemic stroke in the right basal ganglia. In the same week, she was moved out of the role she had built her whole identity around. We talk about perfectionism and the overwork loop that’s so hard to step out of. Why she tried to go back to work the day after her stroke, a condition called anosognosia. And the question at the heart of this episode: who are you when your career is gone? Now, if stroke has made your world feel smaller, my book is written for you. It’s called Your World Doesn’t Have to Stay This Small: A Practical Guide to Rebuilding Your Life After Trauma, Even When You’re Not Ready. Search for it on Amazon or tap the link in the show notes. And if this show has helped you, you can support it at patreon.com/recoveryafterstroke. And a massive thank you to everyone who already supports the show. You’re the reason these conversations keep happening. And now it’s time for the interview. Life Before the Stroke Bill Gasiamis (01:08)Cassie Jewell, welcome to the podcast. Cassie (01:10)Hi, how are you? Bill Gasiamis (01:12)I’m well. Thank you. Great to see you here. I really appreciate you joining me. I want to ask you a little bit about what your life was like before the stroke. What did you get up to? How did you occupy your time? Cassie (01:26)So my life was out of control before the stroke. I was working at a jail and it was a super stressful position. it was just stress all the time. I had a really bad supervisor too, a micromanager. but I also that wasn’t the only part of my life. I traveled a lot. I don’t know. It’s hard to even think about it now, honestly. Bill Gasiamis (01:54)How long ago was the stroke? Cassie (01:57)So the stroke was it’s been about a year and a half. It was February twenty first, twenty twenty five. Bill Gasiamis (02:02)Mm-hmm. w were you in a relationship? Were what’s the living arrangements like? What were you doing like personally? Cassie (02:12)Yes, I was in a relationship. I’m still in the same relationship. but I guess I was talking about work first because that was my entire life. It like revolved around my job. And I actually loved my job. It was just some of the stress part that I didn’t love. Bill Gasiamis (02:29)You loved your job, so you’re working in a jail with inmates? Cassie (02:33)Yes, I’m a therapist. Bill Gasiamis (02:36)okay. Cassie (02:38)And so I was working as a behavioral health supervisor at the jail. I didn’t have a lot of client contact, but when I did, those were the good days. But a lot of it was just inputting data, which was not fun. Bill Gasiamis (02:54)just all about reporting things to the bodies governing the jails or to Cassie (03:00)Yes. So specifically I worked with the when I say MAT, do you know what I mean by that? Medication Bill Gasiamis (03:06)No. Cassie (03:07)assisted treatment. So for the inmates who had opioid use disorders, they would start taking medication to help with that. It’s called Suboxone or buprenorfin is the name of the medication. Suboxon is the brand name. Bill Gasiamis (03:24)Mm-hmm. Cassie (03:25)But it helps with cravings, so a lot of the inmates were on the medication. My role was to track all of the inmates who were on medication. And so that was the data piece, like spreadsheets and just that was a lot. I kind of Bill Gasiamis (03:42)So you Cassie (03:43)sorry, go ahead. Bill Gasiamis (03:44)I was gonna say you became a counsellor or a therapist to have one-on-one contact with people, but you’re finding Cassie (03:53)Right. Bill Gasiamis (03:53)yourself in a situation where it’s all about statistics, data and a whole bunch of other things that you really w didn’t sign up for when you first started out to be a therapist. Cassie (04:03)Exactly. Like it was a good day if I got to spend time with clients or inmates. And a bad day would be me just at my desk, like hunched over till my neck was aching and just like I said, spreadsheets and data. Bill Gasiamis (04:18)Your world kind of revolved around work. How many hours a a week did you work? Cassie (04:24)I mean technically I was supposed to work forty hours, but I would stay late and I would work from home. So like that’s the worst thing about, you know, since the pandemic everybody works from home. I was able to bring it home with me, so if I didn’t finish something at work, I would just I’d be sitting on my couch make Bill Gasiamis (04:45)Is it that the workload was too too high or was it just the nature of the job? Cassie (04:51)So to be honest, well the workload was definitely too high and I I’m sharp enough to know like if it was or wasn’t and it definitely was, but at the same time I’m a perfectionist and I wanted things to be perfect and so that played a lot into it. And this is what I realized in hindsight, ’cause at the time I would have told you that the workload was ridiculous and like I didn’t play any role in it, but I did. Bill Gasiamis (05:20)Wow. So that’s an awareness Cassie (05:21)I wanted it. Bill Gasiamis (05:22)you’ve had recently. The perfectionism thing is a real what is it like a real barrier? Cassie (05:30)Yeah, it’s I’ve dealt with it my entire life. But when it comes to employment with certain things, you can’t be a perfectionist ’cause it’s just going to kill you eventually. And for me it almost did. Like I believe my stroke was in part caused by stress because that was the only thing in my life that was like different. I’m a pretty healthy person. Bill Gasiamis (05:56)Yeah. At home, when you were working at home, how many additional hours would you be doing if you had a regular day at work and then came home? How much additional time would you be spending? Cassie (06:06)Like two or three. Bill Gasiamis (06:08)Yeah. Okay. And then are your employers noticing? Are they going, Well, congratulations, you’ve got the best notes in the world or the best statistics or data? Cassie (06:17)Nope, nobody noticed. My manager also worked from home and I know this because she would send emails like at ten PM and be like she’s doing the same thing because I think it’s probably in America like jails are not well staffed and not well run. And it’s probably just widespread. You have people who are overworking and no wonder nobody wants to work in a jail. I loved it though. I loved the like I said, I loved working with the inmates. I like people. Bill Gasiamis (06:49)Yeah. Cassie (06:50)I like working with people. Doesn’t matter if they’re an inmate or not an inmate, like that’s why I became a therapist. Bill Gasiamis (06:57)Yeah. Ideal candidates for support therapy, Cassie (07:00)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (07:01)learning new skills, understanding how their behavior impacts their life and other people and all that type of thing. And maybe some of the first times that they’ve ever come across a therapist, would you say for s for a lot of the people that end up in jail? Cassie (07:17)Possibly. And a lot of the people who were addicted to opiates or they maybe h not b have been addicted, but who used opiates didn’t even recognize how deadly it was. They Bill Gasiamis (07:30)Mm-hmm. Cassie (07:30)had just been like they were young, like I said, children is how I see it. Like I’m in my forties now, but so everybody’s a child to me, but you know, eighteen, nineteen year olds in jail because Bill Gasiamis (07:42)Yeah, they yell. Cassie (07:43)they were using with a friend or something and they didn’t know what they were getting themselves into. Bill Gasiamis (07:47)No, that’s perfectly fine. They’re children. in my mind as well, I know they’re technically an adult, but it’s such a small gap between childhood and adulthood when you’re eighteen. Like I Cassie (08:01)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (08:02)mean, as if there’s a a year when it’s definitely an adult now. I know that the law is a little more kind of restri harsh on that definition, but The truth Cassie (08:15)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (08:15)is is this is very hard to kind of fit people into. Cassie (08:18)Their brains are still developing. Bill Gasiamis (08:19)Yeah, till twenty five or something, like many Cassie (08:22)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (08:23)of the lobes haven’t come one of the lobes at least hasn’t come online. I think it’s the frontal lobe. Cassie (08:27)That I don’t know, but I’m sure Bill Gasiamis (08:28)Yeah. Yeah. I might be wrong, but that’s okay. so life was pretty hectic, pretty full on, lots of work at home as well as at the office or in the jail. And then Cassie (08:41)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (08:42)how is that impacting kind of your just regular life in that switching off part, that doing things that you loved, or going out with your partner, or taking the dogs for a walk? How did it affect that part of it? Did it eat into that? Cassie (08:57)It did. I was not a great person to be around ’cause I was cranky all the time. I was tired all the time and thinking about work all the time. But I’ve always traveled and so I made a point to travel still. So I was still traveling the world. so that piece was good. Bill Gasiamis (09:14)Like the circuit breaker that you at least always did for a period of time. How long would those trips last? Cassie (09:22)I travel whenever I can, so sometimes it would be like a three day trip, sometimes it would be like a ten day trip. Bill Gasiamis (09:29)Uhhuh. So squeeze in whatever you can just to get out and about. Cassie (09:32)Mm-hmm. Yep. The Day of the Stroke Bill Gasiamis (09:35)So what happened on the day of the stroke? Do you have any recollection of that, any awareness of the lead up to that? Cassie (09:43)So I can tell you the story. There’s not like a anything that seemed to lead up to it. It was just living my life as normal. I had just gotten back from Iceland, but you know, like I said, that was travel was my norm. And So this is still hard for me to talk about. This was like a horrible thing that happened to me. This is like sometimes I think it’s worse than the stroke. I don’t know. If it is or not, but I was demoted from my position. And so this position is, you know, it’s everything. And then at the same time, it’s like the worst thing in the world because I’m so I’m overworked. I’m exhausted. I have a a manager who’s not supportive. And I could almost see it coming, but I was still still shocked and like. I put my like everything into my career. Like that’s who I am. Like my entire identity was my career. And so being demoted was was is maybe the worst thing that has ever happened to me. And so that happened on a Wednesday and then the stroke happened on a Friday. So it was a very busy week for me. And I had gotten back from Iceland on a Monday. So it was in one week that all these things happened. Bill Gasiamis (11:07)Intense so you’re back at work after traveling, jet lag, you know, holiday mode, all those things. Then two days later you get called into the office, you get demoted from the role that you’re in into a different position. You take Cassie (11:22)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (11:22)a bad lib by the sound of things. Cassie (11:25)I think I was very professional when it happened but it was absolutely like devastating. It’s Bill Gasiamis (11:31)Yeah. Cassie (11:32)not something I talk about because it’s still like very painful. Bill Gasiamis (11:35)Raw. Yeah. And then two days later, what happens on the Friday? How does that play out? Cassie (11:43)So it was Thursday night and I was I had just stayed up and been writing. I was working on a a book that I never ended up publishing, but it was a book that I was working on. And it was kind of like a well, let me show that I still matter, that I’m still worth something by I’m gonna write this book and so I was just driven by like spite and like my whatever, who knows. So I hadn’t gone to sleep at all, and it’s Thursday night, and I’m still up and I’m still writing, and I’m drinking wine and I’m on the couch. so leading up to it was the demotion, and had been traveling, and then I’m typing, and as I’m typing, like my left hand just stops working, and I didn’t think anything of it. I was like, that’s Weird. This is weird. And I was like, I’m gonna go to bed. I’ve had too much to drink. And so like I get up and just kinda stumble to bed. And it’s not until the next morning, well it’s a afternoon by then, when I finally wake up or I get up and I know that something’s like wrong and I don’t know what’s wrong. I’m just like I can tell that something is off with me. And I’m saying this to my partner. He’s like in the other room, but I’m still in bed. I’m like, something is wrong with me. Something is wrong with me. And I just keep on repeating that over and over again. And I couldn’t figure out what was wrong. And I was like, I decided that I was having a panic attack because I’m familiar with that. And it fit because I felt like I was dying, but I knew I wasn’t actually dying. And then I remembered, I was like, wait a minute. Last night was weird. That was weird. That thing happened. And so I don’t call 911. I text my mom. And I’m like, mom, this happened to me. My mom is a nurse practitioner, so it makes sense that I texted her instead of calling 911. And she was like, Those are stroke symptoms. Call 911 now and ask me to take you to a stroke center or to a hospital with a stroke center. So my partner ends up calling. He makes the phone call. I don’t know what I’m doing at that point. And he’s like, Yeah, maybe you should get ready. And I don’t know how I did because apparently I’m paralyzed on my left side. I don’t know when that actually s like settled in, but I was able to function enough until the ambulance arrived. And they’re like, Where’s the victim? Where’s the stroke victim? And I’m like, it’s it’s me. Cause I’m still standing, I answered the door and everything. But my Bill Gasiamis (14:21)Wow. Cassie (14:24)And I don’t know this of course, but like later I’m told one half of my face is drooping. So it was obvious, even though I’m still like walking and talking. Bill Gasiamis (14:34)And there Cassie (14:34)And I had I had pictures of it, like how bad it was, like how pronounced it was, but I deleted them all because I’m very vain and I don’t want anybody to ever see how awful it looked. Bill Gasiamis (14:44)Wow. Cassie (14:44)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (14:45)Do you prefer that you hadn’t deleted that now or are you happy that they’re gone? Cassie (14:51)I have there’s one picture left. Somebody else took the picture actually. And like looking back on it’s just I mean, I probably it probably would be good to have those pictures because I would be able to like remind myself of how far I’ve come, but it’s also like really d uncomfortable and disorienting to see yourself look like that. I don’t know if you Bill Gasiamis (15:13)Mm-hmm. Yeah. Cassie (15:15)if you have that experience if there were pictures taken of you after your stroke. Bill Gasiamis (15:20)There was, not a lot of them, only because it wasn’t the first thing on our mind. Cassie (15:26)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (15:27)but I had pictures taken when I was in the rehab facility where w I was strapped in and I was attached to the ceiling and I was walking along trying to rehabilitate my leg Cassie (15:39)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (15:40)like like a marionette. so that’s about it. And I’ve got some pictures of my scar, which were pretty epic. The surgery scar was pretty epic. Cassie (15:52)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (15:54)and and then that’s about it. and they’re Cassie (15:58)So how do you feel when you look at those pictures? Bill Gasiamis (16:01)The thing, Cassie, with me is I don’t relive the experience when I talk about it. Whereas I know people who have had something challenging happen to them that th when they’re re expi when they’re talking about it, it’s like they’re reliving it. So I kind of really understand why it’s difficult for them to talk about it or to see a photo. And when I talk about that, there’s a disassociation with it. And it’s not a disassociation that I’ve made from the perspective of I don’t want to think or remember or etc. It’s just that I I’ve spoken about it so much that it’s like I’m telling a story about somebody else. Now, Cassie (16:44)Yeah, that’s healthy. Bill Gasiamis (16:45)yeah, it’s me, but it’s not really. Cassie (16:48)Right. Bill Gasiamis (16:48)I see the pictures, but it’s 12 years since brain surgery. Like I don’t connect me to that. day, even though it’s definitely me and I have the deficits and I live with the, you know, injury and all the things that it did to me. Like, I don’t know, like I I don’t get triggered by in a negative way, but I understand when I’ve seen people talk about experiences that they get triggered by, it’s because they’re reliving it and that somehow they haven’t separated their current self to the the self that went through that part of the experience. Cassie (17:25)I also think that just the passage of time helps with it, like ’cause you’re so far removed from it. It’s Bill Gasiamis (17:30)Indeed. Cassie (17:31)like I believe that people change, like almost every decade we become new people. Not like every decade on the, you know, like at right at thirty and then forty, but like approximately every decade we become relatively Bill Gasiamis (17:44)Yeah. Cassie (17:44)different people than we were before. And so it’s like looking back Bill Gasiamis (17:49)I agree. Cassie (17:49)at a different person almost when you see that. Bill Gasiamis (17:52)I I agree. And a different person in many ways. Like not a podcaster, not an author, you know, not a speaker. a very different person, you know, and That one that the person that I was was just basically a guy not dissimilar to what you described, just getting through, you know, like working as much as possible, at home, at work, too many hours, the phone always on, people reaching me any time of the day. It was mental. and it was the best time and the worst time. I’m gonna interrupt you for a second ’cause I’m expecting a phone call. From my dad’s appointment at the hospital. One moment, please. Hello. Hey, is that Bill? Yes. Yeah, he’s done with that injunction. He’s ready to be collected. Okay. well we’ll get there as soon as we can if that’s all right. Yeah, sure. Shouldn’t be too late. Okay, no worries. I’ll just organise someone. Thank you so much. Bye bye. My dad had a little procedure. Cassie (18:58)Si okay. Bill Gasiamis (18:59)Yeah. And he just needs to get picked up. And of course I bet you’ve his grandson who was meant to pick him up has forgotten. And we’ll edit all this out anyway, so Let’s see what it says. All right. let’s see what it says. Awesome, he’s going now. yeah, so as I was saying, so I I I I put a lot of work into being a different person as well. Like that was important. I couldn’t be the same guy that came out of all of that stroke stuff because that guy was not heading in the right direction. He was gonna be unwell again. Right. And and what you said kind of reminds me of how I was. perfectionism might not have been my thing, but it was there was a thing, you know, that I bought into that I needed to do that I couldn’t do any other way, that if it didn’t happen like that it was gonna be wrong. You know? And it was for me it was I can’t outsource it to anyone else because nobody’s ever gonna do what I do, how I do it, make the customer happy so we can get paid. It yeah, it’s kind of it kind Cassie (20:08)That’s perfectionism, maybe. In a sense. Bill Gasiamis (20:11)of is. Yeah. I see perfectionism in my wife differently ’cause she described what you described at her cause she’s a she’s studying and just finished her masters in psychology. Yeah, and she does Cassie (20:27)good. It’s awesome. Bill Gasiamis (20:28)case notes and my gosh. It’s like you’ve done a day’s work. Yeah, I honestly like she does a day’s work. And then I’m like, how long did it does it need to take to do case notes after a day’s work? And she’s like, as long as it takes. And I’m like, Well, it as an outsider, somebody who doesn’t understand what you’re doing. It seems like it’s taking way too long after the session with your client to d to do the case notes. It’s it’s what it seems like to me. And and she’s not denying it, but she is kind of saying, Well, I’m early on in my career and I have to make sure that the case notes are done well, et cetera. And I’m like, How have you ever compared them to other people’s case notes to know what’s good enough or acceptable? And that’s kind of what I didn’t do either. Like I never understood that when you’re delivering a painting project to a client, ninety percent is good enough. If the client says it’s a pass, it’s a pass. And then you get paid. Trying to overdeliver to ensure payment, because I was concerned. I think it it was more for me, it was about getting paid rather than me being a stickler for perfection. It was about if I don’t do it. To the client’s expectation, then I won’t get paid. And that was kind of what it was. But it’s a similar ailment, you know, like it gets in the way of spare time and hours for me to do something other than work, but I I didn’t know it at the time. It was just the way that it was. Cassie (22:10)Yeah. Well it’s hard to know when you’re in the middle of it also. And my partner would point it out like how insane I was being and I didn’t see it. Like I said at the time I just I didn’t well Bill Gasiamis (22:26)Yeah. Cassie (22:27)I did to an extent, but not enough to make me stop. Bill Gasiamis (22:33)Yeah. And you then have maybe the exit part of the loop. Like, where do I get off the loop? You know, like how do I jump out of here? I know he’s told me, and I know somebody else might have mentioned it. And I know I’m working too many hours, but like how do I get out of it? Like what’s the the exit? I get that too. That’s kind of how I was. The stroke became that for me. Is that how you kind of experienced your stroke afterwards? Was it a circuit breaker as well as this illness? Aftermath and Recovery Cassie (23:02)Yeah, I feel like that, like the way you said it. Like I feel like I was literally burning myself to the ground, like I was burnt out and just wasn’t gonna stop and was gonna keep on going and going and going. And then my brain was like, Okay, we’ve had enough. We’re gonna stop you. And I had a stroke. Bill Gasiamis (23:21)Mm. Cassie (23:22)And they say that stress doesn’t directly cause strokes, like it contributes to it. But like I mentioned, like I’m pretty healthy. And I was I’m forty three now. I was only forty two. And that’s not normal. Like it’s usually age sixty five and older that have the strokes. Definitely Bill Gasiamis (23:42)Yeah. Cassie (23:42)wasn’t expecting it. Bill Gasiamis (23:44)What kind of a stroke was it? Cassie (23:46)It was an ischemic stroke. It was a right hemisphere stroke in the basal ganglia, which I didn’t know what they were. I learned about it after my stroke. Bill Gasiamis (23:55)And did they have Cassie (23:55)They apparently do a lot with like has to do with your motion and balance, but also emotional regulation, which that was a huge thing when I was recovering, like having to deal with emotions. You’d think as a therapist Bill Gasiamis (24:10)Just crying. Cassie (24:11)I would be good with it, but I’d prefer to deal with other people’s emotions, not my own. Bill Gasiamis (24:16)And you’re human as well, right? So yeah. Just because you Cassie (24:17)yeah, I forgot about that. Yes. That too. Bill Gasiamis (24:20)learnt about it doesn’t mean that you’re the epitome of the perfectly emotionally regulated human just because you learned about it or studied it. Cassie (24:28)Yeah, absolutely not. Bill Gasiamis (24:31)Yeah. and do they know what the underlying cause of the ischemic stroke was? Was there an underlying cause? Cassie (24:40)They still I have like a little heart thing in still. It’s they’re like, maybe it was AFib and I told my cardiologist I was like, it’s not, it’s stress. I know it was stress. And he was like, it might be AFib. We’re gonna still check for this. So it’s like it can stay in for up to four years. I don’t know when they’re gonna take it out. but so far no AFib, which kind of doesn’t mean that my theory is correct, but it seems more plausible that there was they can’t figure out Anything else? I probably drank too much. I was drinking the night of my stroke, but they said that didn’t cause it. Who knows? Combination of Bill Gasiamis (25:16)Hmm. What Cassie (25:18)alcohol and stress. Bill Gasiamis (25:20)Yeah. Or when you say you drink too much as in what are you doing, a bottle a day or just a couple of glasses or Cassie (25:28)So before my stroke I was probably drinking more than a bottle of wine a day. Bill Gasiamis (25:33)Okay. Yeah, that’s too much. Cassie (25:34)So that’s like four to five drinks. And for women, you shouldn’t have more than one drink of alcohol per day. Bill Gasiamis (25:43)Yeah, it is too much for any person really. Yeah. Cassie (25:46)It is. That was my way of coping with stress. Bill Gasiamis (25:51)Yeah, takes the edge off, right? Cassie (25:53)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (25:53)Yeah. It’s not uncommon. Like it’s so many I’m not hearing anything new here, you know, like it’s Cassie (26:00)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (26:00)we’re all the same pretty much everywhere. It doesn’t matter where you live. And everyone needs a way to cope. And sometimes the easiest thing is whatever’s at arm’s reach. And it could be for it could be a piece of bread. It could be a piece of you know, sweet cake or whatever, it could be alcohol. There’s so many ways that we Cope and it’s really useful, especially if you can cope. Yeah. If you Yeah. Yeah. The problem Cassie (26:25)It works so well it just kills you at the same time. Bill Gasiamis (26:30)is it’s short lived coping and it’s not learning or teaching you how to cope ongoing and without it. And that’s the the challenge, right? Is how do we cope with that? I used to smoke. And I would tell you still today that I loved smoking. It was one of the most amazing, most enjoyable things to do. It also came with alcohol and it came after a meal and it came with a coffee. Like all the things I loved to do happened together and smoking was one of them. And I’m sure, I’m certain it was, you know, the nicotine hit and all the things that you get from a cigarette, good, bad, were all contributing to my coping mechanism. But I also was creating the perfect storm for being unwell and Cassie (27:17)Right. Bill Gasiamis (27:18)stress at work, Not enough me time, always thinking about the job, the phone always being on, all that kind of stuff. And then it’s like, okay, well, what do I need? What do I need? What do you I know what I need? I need another coffee and a cigarette. Let me go and grab one. That’s gonna make things better. And it did, like just for that small amount of time. But not enough to be use supportive or not enough to be healthy. It was not healthy, but that’s okay. I learnt and I don’t do that anymore. I don’t smoke anymore. Although I love walking past people who are smoking. Cassie (27:57)That’s funny. I hate the smell of I think a lot of people do, the smell of cigarettes. Bill Gasiamis (28:01)Yeah. I love the smell of cigarettes. Not in the ashtray part, just in the air, kind of wafting around. You know, there was nothing better than being at a really smoky club or whatever. I don’t like the smell in my clothes the next day. But I’m old enough that when we were smok when we were going out to nightclubs and dancing and all that kind stuff, smoking was still allowed indoors in Australia. Whereas now it’s not. it was so cool. man. so how long did you end up in hospital for and how did you manage to deal with the deficits that it was causing before you went home? Hospitalization and Rehabilitation Journey Cassie (28:41)So I was in the like the actual hospital, like in the hospital on the stroke unit for a week. And then they moved me to inpatient rehab for a little over a week. So altogether it was a little over two weeks, so not that long. I was paralyzed for about a week, although it’s crazy, I barely remember it. you’d think like something huge like that you would remember, but I just remember the doctors coming in and being like, Okay pull on my hands, now push on my hands or do this, do that and like I just remember my left hand wasn’t working as well, but it didn’t it didn’t feel like being paralyzed, but I don’t guess I don’t know who would know what that feels like if you’ve never been paralyzed, or you wouldn’t Bill Gasiamis (29:23)Mm-hmm. Cassie (29:24)feel anything, I guess. Bill Gasiamis (29:25)Mm-hmm. Cassie (29:26)And I was able to walk, so my rehab wasn’t that like intensive. It was focusing on I had this weird like kind of like lean where I would like lean left and like veer off to the left. Like if there was nobody to direct me, I would have just like walked off into the walls. so two weeks and then for a month I did like outpatient OT and PT. But I also like I took a look at my drinking and I was like, I need to stop drinking. And so I went to treatment like a month after my stroke, or it was like six weeks after my stroke. So that interrupted my OT and PT. But two weeks to answer your question about two weeks in the hospital and in rehab, which was they were basically the same thing. I was in a bed, an alarmed bed, because I was a fall risk. Which was awful ’cause I’m super independent, so having that taken away from me was like I couldn’t I wasn’t even allowed to get up. I would get scolded like a naughty child when I did. It didn’t stop me from getting up, but I got some scoldings. The nurses I was not a favorite among the nurses, I suspect. Bill Gasiamis (30:38)Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, they were looking up for you. Yeah. They were they were looking out for you but they needed to get the point across as much as possible. I I kinda get it, but yeah, it’s also not nice to be told you shouldn’t do something. but when you can’t do it and it’s a risk to your health, then maybe it’s maybe it’s all right to be told don’t do that in no uncertain terms. Cassie (31:13)They so they taught my partner how to like unarm the bed. And I have to give him credit here because I like begged him to teach me the trick to unarm it and he never did. Yeah. Which was I didn’t care for it at the time, but he realized that maybe I might hurt myself, so Bill Gasiamis (31:26)Ha ha ha. Cassie (31:35)didn’t let me have my way on that. Bill Gasiamis (31:38)I’m gonna have to interrupt us again, my dad’s calling. Cassie (31:41)Okay. Bill Gasiamis (31:44)I don’t like cancelling appointments when we’ve made a a appointment for a podcast. So anyhow I’ll get this Dissociation and Identity Post-Stroke Bill Gasiamis (32:03)to that. Bill Gasiamis (32:12)Is He’s just went in for a little procedure where they injected some cortisol into his back ’cause he’s got some pain. And they put him under so they need him to be picked up. And he’s getting picked up, but he just doesn’t know it and w now we’re going backwards and forwards between between us and the nurses, but I did tell him and he does know but he’s eighty two and he doesn’t listen. If he rings back I’ll just interrupt us again. I’m so sorry. Cassie (32:46)No, it’s fine. Bill Gasiamis (32:49)so Your time in hospital other than being scolded. How do you come to terms with what has happened? Do you come to terms with it? Are you thinking about what this means for you now? Cassie (33:06)Not once. It didn’t even cross my mind. My world like when I look back on it, like my world shrank just to like the hospital bed in the room that I was in. And it just that was the only thing that existed. I didn’t think about, well, how is this gonna impact me long term? Am I gonna be able to go back to work? Like they gave me they told me I couldn’t go back for four months. But I actually tried to go back to work. I was Bill Gasiamis (33:19)at work, Cassie (33:34)working overtime, I was also working at a different location, doing like some overnight shifts. And the day after my stroke I tried to go to work. I was going to just go and not tell anybody and then come back. But they found out my mom was there. She found out. She’s like, Cassie, you can’t you can’t go. You can’t work. You can’t even walk. And I was like, I mostly would just sit at a desk. It should be fine. I’m sure it will be fine. That was kind of my motto the entire time, like, it’s fine, it’s gonna be fine, even though it clearly, you know, wasn’t fine. Bill Gasiamis (34:09)just there was that stroke brain? N like normal Cassie wouldn’t do that. You would know not to do that normally, would wouldn’t you? Like somebody is unwell, that’s not what we do when we’re unwell. Or was it just Cassie (34:21)I don’t Bill Gasiamis (34:21)the stroke playing up on you? Cassie (34:24)So it’s both. Like I didn’t feel unwell for one thing. Like I felt or I thought that I was normal. I thought I was still myself then. But then with right brain stroke especially, there’s I forget the word for it, but you become overconfident in your abilities and you think that you can do things that you can’t do. And so Bill Gasiamis (34:47)Wow. Cassie (34:47)that was a part of it too. I do you know the word for that? Bill Gasiamis (34:51)I don’t. Cassie (34:52)There’s like a very specific word for it. It also happens to people with severe mental illness where they think that they’re okay when they’re not. But it’s specific to right brainstroke. And so I thought it was fine. And then also like me, I’m pretty stubborn and think Bill Gasiamis (35:06)Yeah. Cassie (35:13)I know better than doctors. So there was that too. Bill Gasiamis (35:20)I’m gonna check what it is. I wonder if I can ask Chat GPT what it is, w what is it when somebody’s overconfident after a brain injury or a stroke, right? Is that’s kind of what the search will be. Let’s see what Cassie (35:32)Probably starts with an A. Bill Gasiamis (35:36)wonder what Chat GPT’s got to say about it. Yeah. Cassie (35:39)But it’s being completely unaware of your Bill Gasiamis (35:44)Anosognosia. Anosognosia. It’s a Greek word by the sound of it. from my background. And it is the Cassie (35:45)That sounds familiar. Bill Gasiamis (36:00)Anosognosia is impaired awareness of one’s neurological deficits following brain injury or a stroke. A person may genuinely not recognize or may substantially underestimate. their problems with movement, cognition, communication, behavior, or other abilities. Does that sound like it was your thing? Yeah, wow. Cassie (36:19)That’s exactly what it was. And But then that kind of like followed me after my stroke. Like I was like, wait a minute, am I completely like disabled and I just have no idea? Like so that was difficult. That piece of it, like where I felt like I was doing okay. I mean I was walking and talking still, you know, after my stroke. Bill Gasiamis (36:37)Mm-hmm. See? So you have cognitive awareness of the deficit, but yet the deficit still plays out. This overconfidence in your ability still played out, but you’re still kind of have awareness of it somehow. Cassie (37:06)Yeah, but I don’t know like to this day, like I don’t know, maybe I was completely not functioning at all and I have a memory that I was, who knows. It’s really weird, it kinda messes with your head. Bill Gasiamis (37:18)Yeah. How we it is it’s so weird. I know. I I remember being in all s sort of weird out of brain spaces and experiences and trying to work out w is this actually happening or am I imagining this happening? Is this reality or is it a dream? Like what is it? had a lot of those moments and then people observing me doing that was the most interesting part ’cause then I had to explain to them what I Cassie (37:35)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (37:47)what I was ha happening to me and I was like I was unable to even you know verbalize that like how do I explain that to them when I don’t even know what’s going on. It was just really freaky. and then you ended up going home at some point and what was that like? What was the transition from rehab and care like when you ended up home? How do you manage that? Life After Stroke: Adjusting to New Realities Cassie (38:12)It was really underwhelming. Like I had to do training beforehand. They’re like, Okay, you have to learn how to get in and out of the shower and in and out of a car. So I had to do like training for that, which was silly because Well, like I said, I thought I was functioning fine. But I’ve never fallen once, not once, which I think says that maybe I was functioning to an extent. The physical disability was never really that big of an issue. It was more like the the cognitive stuff and then like the emotional piece. That was what was my big struggle. But yeah, they I had to they had to put me in a wheelchair to leave the hospital, even though I insisted I was fine. They were like, No, we don’t just let people get up and go, you have to do this. So they wheeled me out and my sister picked me up and took me home and that was it. And then I was home and I expected life to go back to normal, but it did not. Like that was probably I guess being home was like the wake up call when I was like, my life is gonna be different now. Very different. Bill Gasiamis (39:25)Yeah. Cybering. Cassie (39:28)Exactly. Bill Gasiamis (39:30)Hm. You weren’t working. Were you allowed to drive or go out and about were you up to that? Cassie (39:36)You know what? I was really, really, really tired for I’m still tired all the time, but like so I wasn’t like really up to doing anything. I wasn’t allowed to drive for six months, but I did. I got into an accident, I think, my first my first day behind the wheel. It was just a tiny little accident. I just tapped somebody’s bumper and they got very upset about it. They were overreacting, I think. Bill Gasiamis (40:07)People tend to do that with car. Cassie (40:09)They do. Bill Gasiamis (40:10)Yeah. I don’t know why. Cassie (40:12)Yeah, she was upset. Bill Gasiamis (40:14)you wouldn’t it how how we act in a car when we’re in the car, when somebody Cassie (40:21)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (40:22)does something minor on the road, we would never act outside of the car in the real world in public when somebody crossed our Cassie (40:29)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (40:30)path or bumped into us or whatever. It’s just strange what happens when people get in a car. Yeah. Cassie (40:34)wild. Same thing online, people act w in ways they never would in real life. Bill Gasiamis (40:40)Yeah, it’s a little bubble of false sort of bravado or security or something, I don’t know what, and people just change their behavior. I’ve become aware of that recently and I’ve made a massive effort to not be that way. And I did a lot of work around actually not reacting when I’m in the car to Cassie (41:00)That’s amazing. Bill Gasiamis (41:01)yeah, incidences that are so insignificant because every time you drive there is an insignificant incident and if you’re just freaking out about it all the time, all you’re doing is making yourself unwell. It’s just another negative Cassie (41:13)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (41:13)thing that you do, right? So I’ve made a concerted effort about a year ago to make sure that I do not react by yelling and screaming to people in a car when they’re just driving on the road. I’m doing exactly the same thing. I don’t know where I get off being the guy. who thinks that my driving is so much better that that I I am if within my rights to be aggressive or act out or yelling or screaming at the person in the other car who actually can’t hear me anyway and doesn’t even know what they did wrong. Cassie (41:56)That’s so one thing that like I could be a bit of a jerk before when driving. Not that anybody would know. I was just in my car yelling and cursing, but you know But since the stroke I’ve actually I have more patience because I’m much I’m slower and that’s just in like life in general, but also behind the wheel. I’m I’m much slower. And Bill Gasiamis (42:07)Yeah. Cassie (42:21)so then when somebody starts tailing me, I get super frustrated with it, but I’m like when I think somebody’s going too slow, now I’m like, Well, there’s probably a reason for that so I can chill and just drive slow. I probably need to anyway. So Bill Gasiamis (42:36)awareness, yeah. Like it’s like maybe they’re recovering from something, maybe they’re just more careful. Maybe they have a you know, more more kind of anxiousness about them and they want to make sure that they’re paying more attention, you know, it’s all all sorts of things going on. And judging people without having any idea was s so getting in the way of my just five minute trip down the road, you know, to pick up something. What’s the point of going for a drive and being angry for no reason? Like it’s ridiculous. Cassie (43:05)Yeah. The wild thing is is I had all these skills before my stroke. Like I could have I’m a therapist, you know. I understand these things. I empathize with people, but I would get so mad at other drivers. But now I I’m just like, somebody they’re probably like me. And that’s in not just in driving, in like all areas of my life. I’m more empathetic. I think I’m a better therapist in some ways. I’m not as sharp as I was before, but I think I’m kinder. Bill Gasiamis (43:40)You have more insight. Cassie (43:42)More insight, yes, for sure. Bill Gasiamis (43:43)more life experience. Cassie (43:47)Yeah. Exactly. Bill Gasiamis (43:50)Yeah. so did you kind of find a way back to work? Are you working again? Cassie (44:00)I’m working I’m working at a very different like paced job. I’m doing intake assessments now, so it’s Bill Gasiamis (44:08)manage to deal with the deficits that it was causing before you went home? Cassie (44:12)I get more like FaceTime, which is nice, but it’s also it’s not a very challenging job. And before it was the work was very challenging. So it’s different pace of life. But I’m back to work. I’m working full time. And then I see clients on the side and my and it’s not my practice, it’s a group practice, so private practice clients too. Bill Gasiamis (44:36)Sounds like it’s more alig aligned with the whole intention of becoming a counsellor, a therapist, like at the beginning. Cassie (44:42)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (44:44)Yeah. Less statistically based and more client focused. Cassie (44:49)Yeah. I do miss the population ’cause like I really liked working with the inmates. But Bill Gasiamis (44:55)Yeah. Cassie (44:56)I just I wouldn’t go back into that environment. Bill Gasiamis (45:00)Yeah. E especially when you’re you know, the people you’re reporting to are also maybe, you know, a bit difficult to handle as well or highly, you know, tense or whatever. They’re we’ve got to also understand like they’re living in a environment where they’re working in a jail as well and God knows Cassie (45:18)Yes. Bill Gasiamis (45:19)what they’re dealing with and putting up with as well and how they’re able to personally manage it. And if everyone’s kind of dysfunctional, you wanna not Cassie (45:27)Mm. Bill Gasiamis (45:28)be there, even though that’s where people are needed, you need to kind of do your time and get out. Cassie (45:35)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (45:36)’cause ongoing dysfunction just becomes traumatic for everybody who’s involved, even though you’re going there to do good work, you’re coming out and then you’re not well, you’re not healthy, and it leads to illness and what’s the point of that? your website is cassiejewell.com and there’s a couple of things on there that you talk about and promote and There’s a very cool photo of you on the home page. Like I love that photo. It’s Cassie (46:03)Hello, thanks. Bill Gasiamis (46:05)so cool. and it says Cassie Jewell is a counselor and an author exploring psychology of change, resilience, regret, and identity. Cassie (46:14)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (46:15)Change, resilience, regret, and identity. Huge. Cassie (46:18)That’s all from my stroke. Bill Gasiamis (46:20)Huge words. Okay. I was gonna ask you whether that may have been on there previously or whether that is the new thing that you’re interested in. Cassie (46:28)That is something I’ve definitely focused on more since the stroke, especially identity. because before I identified just completely like with my career, or more so with my job, not my career, but my job. But that I was just completely wrapped up in that. And now I’ve had to well, I went through I had another job when I first started back to work, that didn’t work out. It’s ’cause I’m not as competent as I used to be. It’s really hard. I’m still dealing with that. But when you measure your self-worth in the things that you do, like in your career, and then all of a sudden you don’t have your career anymore, who are you? I had to figure that out. And I like who I am now. I think Or I I don’t know if I’m the same person or if I’m a different person. It’s hard to gauge that. I think I it took me some time, but I think I finally just adjusted to who I am now and I’m choosing to like who I am now. I’m a Bill Gasiamis (47:37)Yeah. Cassie (47:37)different person, probably, but I’m the only you know, this brain is the only one I’ve got, so I might as well invest in it and like it. Don’t Bill Gasiamis (47:47)Yeah. Cassie (47:48)have any other choice. Bill Gasiamis (47:50)No. and yet i your your identity, like do you i if I was to ask you what it is or how would you like what how do you identify? Like how can do you have a elevator pitch? Can you say that to to me now? Cassie (48:10)I do not have an elevator pitch. I have no idea. I don’t know how to describe it. I just I know more what I’m not and I’m not driven by work. Like I value free time more in my personal life and my loved ones, my dogs. I don’t have kids, I have dogs. They’re my kids. Bill Gasiamis (48:30)Yeah. Yep. Cassie (48:34)and like I would be okay if I didn’t have my career. I would still know who I was without my career. Where before I didn’t, and so losing that was like losing everything. That’s why the stroke hit so hard is because I lost I lost my career and myself at the same time, almost my life, but it was more the losing of like my identity and so My new identity is part like having lost that I’m no longer that career woman that I was and then also who I am since the stroke. So Bill Gasiamis (49:11)Mm-hmm. When I was younger, I didn’t have an opportunity to work out my identity. I just got stuck into the tasks that I needed to do. Cassie (49:21)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (49:21)To pay the bills, to feed the kids, to put through school, to pay the mortgage, to do all that stuff. And it was never a conversation like, how do I who am I, who do I identify as? Or if somebody asked me the question, I wouldn’t even know what it meant. Like they’d what are you talking about? Like, I just go to work and I do all these things. You know, but beyond what you do, who are you? That’s such a bizarre thing to have to contemplate. I think that’s what I found difficult about it as well, was that not only did I lose all those things that I did who I thought I was, I actually didn’t have the vocabulary or the insight about the topic or anything. I had nothing. And I’m starting from completely scratch. And that would have been the hardest question in the world for somebody to ask. Now I stumbled into identity loss and all that kind of stuff just by interviewing people and realizing that other people are going through that and they had a word for it. But before that, if I if I was asked, I wouldn’t have a clue how to begin a conversation with that. I wouldn’t be able to get off telling somebody that I was a business owner and I was a dad and it was all about other people. Cassie (50:35)Do you feel like did it take you a long time to like yourself, like your new self after the stroke? How Stroke Forced Me to Discover Who I Really Am Bill Gasiamis (50:42)A a few years, yeah. I think I realized Cassie (50:44)Few years. Bill Gasiamis (50:45)that so my whole thing started in twenty twelve and then out I was at home out of surgery in twenty in December twenty fourteen. And then I was at home alone from late December twenty fourteen for the first five or six months of the following year, twenty fifteen. Twenty fifteen, around twenty fifteen is when I started the podcast, but there was only a few episodes. And they were intermittent and I wasn’t well. I had fatigue. I was dealing with and all the things. And then by around early 2016, maybe middle of the year, something like that, would have been the first time when I said, I think stroke was the best thing that happened to me. And and it you know what why I said that. It wasn’t because I I loved the experience of being unwell, nearly dying, brain surgery, all of that. It’s because I realized that I had grown as a person. And that my identity had shifted from somebody who was caught up in all the labels and all of the what is it like all of the barriers that I put up in between, you know, from in my own way that I created in my own mind about myself. And then I realized I was on a podcast interview and I said that with the the person who I was interviewing. I think stroke’s the best thing that happened to me, and they said the same thing back. And then it’s like, wow, how did you get here? And I realized how I got there was I how I was speaking on a stage, sharing information about stroke awareness. I was meeting stroke survivors who I really got along with and we understood each other and we were able to appreciate what what both of us had been through. I felt understood for the first time. you know, so I was doing all these things that were different that were actually bringing a different kind of joy into my life. Cassie (52:36)Yeah, fulfillment meaning. Bill Gasiamis (52:37)Yeah. Purpose, meaning. And I never knew those things existed before that. I didn’t know that my purpose and meaning needed to be refined and it shouldn’t have been about making as much money as possible as quickly as possible. Because apparently my kids needed the new pair of sneakers or, you know, the new console or whatever it was that they needed. And I thought I should work harder to make possible for them. So yeah, it was Cassie (53:08)I think it kind Bill Gasiamis (53:08)Unbelievable. Cassie (53:09)of I’m thinking about it now, like it strips away everything else so you have nothing left but yourself and you have to take a look at yourself and then that’s when you can really decide who am I and am I gonna choose to like this person? And you can also choose what your new identity is gonna be. Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (53:28)That’s the best part about it. Choice. I never had that before. Well, I did, but I didn’t think I did. Cassie (53:35)Right. Bill Gasiamis (53:36)I did what my parents told me to do. I did what other people told me to do. I never did what I wanted to do. I was always doing stuff that I’d been trained my entire life to do. You know, you go to school, d do X amount of hours Monday to Friday for your primary years and then your secondary years doing a certain amount of hours. 13 years later, you’re spat out. And it’s like, okay, what else do you guys want me to do? Okay, I’ll just do that. And I envy Maybe envy’s not the word ’cause it’s a little bit harsh, but I I kind of I maybe it is envy and jealousy. Like of people who were twenty or eighteen or nineteen and knew what they wanted to do somehow. And they just went and did it. Now I know they’ve got their own issues and they’re probably struggling in other ways. Yeah. Maybe maybe. Cassie (54:20)They probably didn’t know. I don’t think anybody does. I think you have to have something like a stroke happen to you to really know what you want and to be able to have this different perspective on life. So I get how like it can be it can be the worst thing that’s happened to you and the best thing that’s happened to you at the same time because it’s not about the stroke. It’s about okay, what am I gonna choose to do now? And you can do anything. Bill Gasiamis (54:48)Yeah. And that was Cassie (54:49)And that’s amazing. Bill Gasiamis (54:51)such a gift. Cassie (54:52)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (54:53)And it came from this Crappy path, like whatever. Like such a massive, difficult thing. I have a couple of people who I coach through stroke recovery and whatever. Like I I’m not not not in a doctor way, just like we talk about things that they perhaps don’t get to talk about with other people who are not stroke survivors, right? And one of the things that really happened to me recently was the person who I’m coaching at the moment just came on on board, signed up, and their first session. The person’s still in rehab. And they’re very emotional and it’s very challenging and very difficult. And it’s so fresh between having gone from their regular life to what their life looks like now. Cassie (55:37)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (55:38)And that was in my mind a little bit triggering in that, I had forgotten that feeling. Now I remember what that was like. And then it’s trying to keep somebody in a space of remain calm, you know, be What Bruce Lee used to say, you know, be the boat on the wave, you know, like just go with the flow and all that kind of stuff. And it’s the time to practice all those things, but it’s also the most difficult time to practice all those things because you’ve had a stroke and your brain is not working optimally and you know, there’s yeah. Cassie (56:12)It’s so traumatic and like it’s great too. Bill Gasiamis (56:15)It’s traumatic, it’s grief, it’s identity, it’s loss, it’s everything all together, all in one lump sum. And then I&#

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Aux États-Unis, le gratin du Parti républicain se réunit autour de son président, Donald Trump, à Dallas, au Texas, les 9 et 10 septembre, pour une convention exceptionnelle à quelques semaines des élections de mi-mandat. Pourquoi Donald Trump a-t-il organisé cette convention? On pose la question à Antoine Heulard, correspondant de BFMTV aux États-Unis.

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J'ai confié l'organisation de mes vacances à ChatGPT : ce qui a fonctionné, ce qui a dérapéJ'ai confié mes vacances à ChatGPT. Restaurant fermé, musée mal renseigné, fausse pépite locale. Mon bilan et les 3 réflexes à adopter. L'essentiel en 30 secondesJ'ai demandé à ChatGPT d'organiser des visites pendant mes vacances : itinéraires, activités, timing, avec une contrainte « dog friendly ». Résultat : une forme irréprochable, un fond à vérifier ligne par ligne.Ce qui a très bien marché : la structure d'un itinéraire, la logique de déplacement, les idées thématiques auxquelles je n'aurais pas pensé.Ce qui a échoué : un restaurant fermé définitivement l'année précédente, un musée présenté comme ouvert un lundi (jour de fermeture quasi général dans cette destination), une « pépite méconnue » qui est en réalité un site bondé toute l'année.La cause : une IA générative n'est pas un moteur de recherche. C'est une photographie du monde arrêtée à sa date d'entraînement, doublée d'un mécanisme probabiliste qui remonte ce qui est le plus populaire, pas ce qui est le plus vrai.La règle : l'IA pour la structure, la vérification humaine pour les détails pratiques.

Arranging your fridge isn't just a way to save space. It's primarily about ensuring optimal preservation of food products and thus preventing the proliferation of bacteria. According to UK Research and Innovation, there are around 2.4 million cases of foodborne illness in the country every year. First and foremost, it's important to know that fridges with ventilated or circulated cold air have a more consistent temperature than those with static cold air. In the latter case, the temperature varies based on the distance from the cold source, so you should start by identifying the coldest area of your fridge. What should be stored in the coldest part? Should packaging be removed? How should you be cleaning your fridge? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions! To listen to the last episodes, you can click here : ⁠⁠Why is the celibacy movement attracting young people?⁠⁠ ⁠⁠What is a faecal transplant?⁠⁠ ⁠⁠How can I relax my brain while on holiday?⁠⁠ A podcast written and realised by Joseph Chance. First Broadcast: 13/8/2023 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pippa Hudson speaks to Dani Cohen, the Founder & Organiser of Dash Of Dani In Life Hacks, to help you declutter and organise your home. Lunch with Pippa Hudson is CapeTalk’s mid-afternoon show. This 2-hour respite from hard news encourages the audience to take the time to explore, taste, read and reflect. The show - presented by former journalist, baker and water sports enthusiast Pippa Hudson - is unashamedly lifestyle-driven. Popular features include a daily profile interview #OnTheCouch at 1:10 pm. Consumer issues are in the spotlight every Wednesday while the team also unpacks all things related to health, wealth & the environment. Thank you for listening to a podcast from Lunch with Pippa Hudson Listen live on Primedia+ weekdays between 13:00 and 15:00 (SA Time) to Lunch with Pippa Hudson broadcast on CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from the show, go to https://buff.ly/MdSlWEs or find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/fDJWe69 Subscribe to the CapeTalk Daily and Weekly Newsletters https://buff.ly/sbvVZD5 Follow us on social media: CapeTalk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capetalk CapeTalk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ CapeTalk on X: https://x.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Watching your child be ignored hurts. You want to step in, fix it and make it stop. Before you do, listen to this conversation. Justin and Kylie answer a question from a mum whose young sons are being shut out by older neighbourhood kids. They share practical ways to help children handle rejection, build confidence and develop friendships that last. KEY POINTS Why children grow when they're part of solving the problem. Questions that help kids think through social challenges. How changing the play environment can stop exclusion. Why big age gaps often lead to younger children being left out. Simple ways to build stronger relationships with neighbouring families. Why avoiding difficult situations can make them harder over time. How to help your child invest in the friendships that matter. QUOTE OF THE EPISODE "The answer isn't always fixing the problem for our children. Sometimes it's helping them discover that they can help solve it themselves." RESOURCES MENTIONED Leave us a voice memo for the podcast! A Little More Social by Nicholas Epley. ACTION STEPS FOR PARENTS Ask your child what they're experiencing before offering advice. Watch how the children interact instead of relying on second-hand accounts. Organise games that make it easy for every child to join in. Get to know the other families in your neighbourhood. Help your child build one or two strong friendships instead of chasing acceptance from the whole group. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Arranging your fridge isn't just a way to save space. It's primarily about ensuring optimal preservation of food products and thus preventing the proliferation of bacteria. According to UK Research and Innovation, there are around 2.4 million cases of foodborne illness in the country every year. First and foremost, it's important to know that fridges with ventilated or circulated cold air have a more consistent temperature than those with static cold air. In the latter case, the temperature varies based on the distance from the cold source, so you should start by identifying the coldest area of your fridge. What should be stored in the coldest part? Should packaging be removed? How should you be cleaning your fridge? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions! To listen to the last episodes, you can click here : ⁠Why is the celibacy movement attracting young people?⁠ ⁠What is a faecal transplant?⁠ ⁠How can I relax my brain while on holiday?⁠ A podcast written and realised by Joseph Chance. First Broadcast: 13/8/2023 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In this week's Real Take, I'm sharing a short snippet from my conversation with professional home organiser and founder of The Home Reset, Hazel Burton.Hazel explains why asking simple questions can be a game changer when it comes to reducing clutter and creating lasting organising habits at home.If you enjoyed this episode, you'll find my full conversation with Hazel Burton wherever you get your podcasts.​To connect with Hazel :thehomereset.iehazel@thehomereset.ie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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AI tools are evolving fast. One of the biggest shifts is the move from one-off prompts to reusable AI skills. Instead of rewriting the same instructions every time you use ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot, you can package your best workflows into portable skills that deliver consistent, repeatable results. In this special episode, recorded as the Digital Marketing Podcast celebrates its 16th anniversary, Daniel Rowles and Ciaran Rogers explore why AI skills could fundamentally change the way marketers work. They explain how skills fit alongside projects, agents and prompts, why they are becoming an emerging standard across the major AI platforms, and how to start building your own library of reusable expertise. Along the way, they also reflect on sixteen years of podcasting, discuss the rapid pace of AI adoption within organisations, and share practical advice for creating skills that become more valuable every time you use them. In This Episode How AI skills differ from prompts, projects and agents. Why reusable skills help create consistent marketing outputs across teams. How to build a brand skill that captures tone of voice, design principles and coding standards. Using skills to create websites, dashboards, articles and creative assets that stay on brand. Why updating a skill after every use makes it progressively more accurate. How skills can be shared between team members and even moved between AI platforms. The relationship between ChatGPT Agents, Claude Projects, Gemini Gems and Microsoft Copilot. How to turn your best prompts into reusable skills. Why marketers should organise AI conversations more deliberately as AI memory improves. Practical advice for creating libraries of reusable marketing workflows. Key Takeaways: Develop your best prompts first, then convert them into reusable skills. Treat skills as repeatable processes rather than one-off conversations. Build separate skills for different purposes, such as branding, content creation, web development or analysis. Use multiple skills together to combine different areas of expertise within a single task. Continuously refine your skills by asking AI to update them after each iteration. Think carefully about when to use a prompt, project, skill or agent depending on the task. Organise your AI workspace to avoid confusion as conversations and memories accumulate. Create shared skills that help maintain quality and consistency across your entire marketing team.

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durée : 00:02:13 - France Inter sur le terrain - Après l'émotion puis les critiques qui ont visé le système judiciaire dans l'affaire Lyhanna, certains tribunaux de France ouvrent leurs portes pour expliquer leur fonctionnement. À Chartres, la réunion a été agitée, mardi soir, mais les magistrats espèrent avoir réussi à passer un message. - équipe : Delphine Evenou Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

durée : 00:02:05 - France Inter sur le terrain - La Maison Blanche va accueillir dimanche une compétition inédite de MMA sur sa pelouse, à l'occasion de l'anniversaire du président américain, Donald Trump. Un gigantesque octogone temporaire a été dressé. - réalisation : Franck Mathevon Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

durée : 00:01:52 - France Inter sur le terrain - Avec la canicule qui touche une partie de la France, les associations d'aide aux plus vulnérables distribuent de l'eau aux sans-abris qui n'ont pas facilement accès à des points d'eau dans la rue. Médecins du Monde organise notamment des maraude porte de la Chapelle, à Paris. - réalisation : Erwan Chassin Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

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Podcast 414 "Organisation is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. But if you spend all your time organising, you never do the 'something'." That's a paraphrase of a quote from A. A. Milne and his book The House at Pooh Corner. And touches on the question I'm asking this week.  Let's go,    Links: Email Me | Twitter | Facebook | Website | Linkedin   Learn more about the Time Sector System  Take the Time Sector System Course   Get Your Copy Of Your Time, Your Way: Time Well Managed, Life Well Lived The Working With… Weekly Newsletter Carl Pullein Learning Centre Carl's YouTube Channel Carl Pullein Coaching Programmes Subscribe to my Substack  The Working With… Podcast Previous episodes page Script | 414 Hello, and welcome to episode 414 of the Your Time, Your Way Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development, and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein, and I am your host of this show.  How do you organise your work?  There was a trend a few years ago to organise our tasks in multiple different ways. There were the original Getting Things Done contexts: @office, @home, @phone, @computer, etc.  Some preferred to manage their tasks by project, creating long lists of projects and assigning tasks to them.  Most of these trends died out because, ultimately, they were just new ways of avoiding the work while still feeling that the work was getting done. A kind of modern-day equivalent of shuffling papers on your desk.  All these trends did was create a longer list of lists, full of spurious tasks that likely didn't need to be done or had already been done but not checked off.  Then there is the idea that we can organise tasks by how much energy we estimate a task will consume. This one still persists, and I will explain shortly why this one doesn't work. Yet there is one way to manage your tasks that has been around for well over a hundred years and still works, one that almost all top-level executives use, but given that it is simple and we humans love to overcomplicate things, it never seems to get much coverage.  Anyway, this is what this week's topic is all about, so to get us started, let me hand you over to the Mystery Podcast Voice for this week's question.  This week's question comes from Ken. Ken asks, Hi Carl, what do you think is the best way to organise tasks? I'm thinking about using energy levels to keep my lists low. Have you had any experience with this method? Hi Ken, Thank you for your question.  I have to confess that over the years, I have jumped on every trend for organising my lists of tasks. And, except for two methods, pretty much all fail.  They fail for the reasons I alluded to a moment ago. They are too complicated and require far too much maintenance to keep organised. You see, the methods that work are simple, and therefore, in today's world, they are not sexy.  The simplest of them all is one I personally have gravitated back to in recent years. That is a simple daily list of tasks to be done today. These are taken from a master list, which is organised during the weekly planning session into the days you plan to do them on.  This method has a built-in safety valve. You can see how many tasks you have allocated to a specific day, and if it looks unrealistic, you can move them to other days to balance out your week.  Given that you are looking at this daily list every day during the Daily Planning Sequence, it can be adjusted for any unknowns that suddenly arise as the week progresses. (Which of course always happens) To maintain this method, all you need is two to three minutes a day and around thirty minutes for your weekly planning.  Not exciting, sexy or newsworthy. It doesn't require expensive apps or AI. You can operate this method using a simple $1.00 notebook or a text file on your computer.  But it works. It's flexible, and as long as you are being sensible, you're never going to feel overwhelmed.  This is where other methods go wrong. They often involve a lot of organising, and given that you are not always looking at the lists you are creating, you have no idea what kind of monster is growing.  Take organising by projects as an example. I don't know where this comes from. It certainly doesn't come from David Allen's Getting Things Done. GTD, as it is called, organises lists by what David Allen calls “Contexts”.  Contexts are created around tools, places or people. For instance, if a task requires a computer to complete it, you would assign it to the @Computer list. If you need to talk to your partner about something, you would add it to your @Partner list, and if you can only complete the task at home, you would add it to your @Home list.  The danger with this kind of organising is twofold. First, some of your lists will become enormous. So big that you don't want to look at them, as they become scary and leave you feeling anxious. And second, some tasks could theoretically fall into two or more lists. For example, if you need to book flights for a trip with your partner, you could allocate it to your @computer list or your @Partner list, and, as you will likely do this at home with your partner, it could conceivably be placed in your @Home list.  So where do you put it?  So you create a Project called “Family trip to Jamaica” and place the book flights task in there. Excellent. Next, you may add “Book hotel” and then maybe add a packing list and places to visit. Soon, a simple “project” has an array of tasks, some of which need to be done before you go and others when you get there.  That isn't really the problem. The problem is you don't have a single project like that. You may end up with projects like buying a new car, redecorating your living room, and, not to mention, all the various projects you will have at work.  Soon, that project list is out of control.  Just maintaining it and reviewing what needs to be done next takes hours.  And let's be honest here, how many of you are willing to consistently spend two or three hours of your weekend reviewing all your projects?  For something like your trip, it would be far easier to create a note in your notes app. Here you can keep your flight tickets, hotel reservation confirmation, packing list and places to visit in one place and have a master checklist for everything you need to do.  In your task manager, all you need now is a single task reminding you to book your flights, or simply to look at what needs doing next on your checklist.  Now you mentioned managing your list by energy levels, Ken.  On the surface, this sounds like a great idea. After all, why would you tackle a task that will require a lot of energy when you are not feeling energetic?  And when you are feeling low on energy, you can clear off some of those low-energy tasks.  Hmmm, but does it work? Well, no.  For one thing, your energy levels are not consistent. Some days you feel on fire, and others you feel like you've been hit by a bus and dragged through a hedge backwards.  The trouble is, when you go to bed, you have no idea how you will feel the next day.  Then there is the issue of deadlines. Whether you feel like doing a task or not, if the deadline is 12 pm today, you've got to finish it, no matter how energetic you feel.  Then there's the human factor. We are wired to be lazy. This comes from the days when we lived on the Savannah. Food was scarce, and we needed to conserve our energy for hunting food.  Then there were the winters when finding food was even harder. Only fatter people would survive winters because we needed to live largely on our fat deposits when we were unable to find food.  This is why it's easy to gain weight and much harder to lose it. Our body wants to store fat. It does not want to let it go.  While we consciously know food is not scarce for most of us today, our lizard brain doesn't know that. And our lizard brain controls our survival instincts, so it will override our conscious intelligence.  This means when we are feeling low on energy, the last thing we will do is open up our task managers and pick something to do.  Instead, we'll crash on the sofa or take a nap.  And so your low-energy list will keep growing.  Then there comes the question of how to define a medium-energy task. What does that mean?  It's likely you will define those tasks differently depending on how you feel on the day you process them.  The second way to organise your tasks that actually works is to go by when a task needs to be done.  Let's go back to the flight example. If you are planning your trip for September and want to get everything booked by the end of June, the window to complete that task is from now through to the end of June.  Given that you want to do this with your partner, it's likely you will do this task when you are with your partner.  If you are away on a ten-day business trip this week and next, you cannot do the task then, so don't put it on your list for this week or next.  As we are about to start May, I would add this task to my Next Month list. I don't need to do it now, but it will need to be on my list in June.  Hopefully, you are familiar with the Time Sector System. This organises your lists by when you will do them.  The only list in play each week is your This Week list. This contains all the tasks you have decided need to be done this week. Everything else is in either your Next Week, This Month, Next Month or long-term and on-hold lists.  Each week, you look at these lists and decide what to bring forward to your This Week list.  The simplicity of this method is that when you process your inbox, you are asking three simple questions: What is it? - Is it a task, an event, or a note? What do I need to do to complete it?  And, when will I do it?  In a very short time, you get super fast at processing your tasks, and with the exception of your long-term and on-hold list, none of your lists will grow out of control. Well, not if you give yourself about 30 minutes each week to maintain and update your lists.  Given that you are working from a single list, your This Week list, once again, you have the built-in safety valve because you can see how many tasks are on your list before the week begins and can adjust it to be more realistic if it becomes too large. The purpose of your long-term and on-hold list is to eliminate, not accumulate. In other words, every month or so, you go in there and delete tasks you no longer want or need to do.  To learn more about the Time Sector System, I have a course that will teach you how to use it as well as a comprehensive blog post explaining why this method works so well in today's world.  I will put links to both in the show notes for you.  So there you go, Ken. There are always new, exciting ways to organise your tasks, but ultimately it comes down to what needs to be done today. That's all that matters at the work level of managing our tasks.  Things that don't need to be done today should never be on your daily list.  Your energy levels will fluctuate throughout the day; it's not something you can control. Energy levels can be affected by the quality and quantity of your sleep, what you ate for lunch and whether you are coming down with a cold or the flu.  What you can control is what you do right now. You could take a nap, go for a walk or sit down and attack that list of prospects that you've been meaning to contact for the last three weeks.  My advice would be to work with what you have direct control over, and that ultimately comes down to when you will do something.  I hope that has helped Ken. Thank you for your question.  And thank you to you, too, for listening. It just remains for me now to wish you all a very, very productive week.   

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In this episode, Rachel shares how she organises change communication and reveals her change clusters model.  You'll discover what the clusters are, why knowing how many changes you are communicating is crucial and how to organise change in your workplace. See allthingsic.com/podcast to find the show notes for this episode.  Signed copies of Rachel's books can be purchased via her website.  Internal Communication Strategy: how to design, develop and transform your organizational communication was published by Kogan Page in 2024. Successful Change Communication: how to inform, involve and inspire employees has just been published by Kogan Page.  You can order (unsigned) copies via koganpage.com and use the code CANDIDCOMMS to save 25% at the checkout.  Or see the All Things IC website for signed copies.  Thank you to Miss Miller for voicing the middle part of this episode.  This season of Candid Comms is brought to you by All Things IC. It has been produced by Fynn Gentle. See allthingsic.com/podcast to check out all the episodes and show notes.   

Comrade Ali speaks at an anti-war rally in Bristol on the further aggression against Iran/Lebanon/Palestine by the imperialists. A group of Pahlavists showed up to march and to counter demo, shamelessly chanting " Israel thank you, USA thank you" " This is the final battle". These imperialist agents tailed the demonstration in order to intimidate participants, one of them tried to intimidate people in the anti war march and even tried to snatch their flag. Comrade Ali exposes the deception: the "beheaded babies" fabrications, the medical-vehicle war crimes in Lebanon, the double-tap bombing of an Iranian girls' school. He shows how health workers are being systematically targeted – and why health workers here must find the courage to speak up. Most importantly, he outlines what British workers can do: refuse to stock Israeli goods, refuse to handle warmongering newspapers, refuse to load weapons, refuse to use the FDP. Organise. Take back your unions. Grow a spine. What purpose can be served by insisting on referring to the popular government in Tehran as a "regime" and declaring that we could not possibly support it? That is not solidarity, it is accepting and promoting imperialist propaganda lies. Down with imperialism! Zendeh Bād Iran! Victory to the resistance!

Steve Jobs once said, “Deciding what NOT to do is as important as deciding what TO do”, and that quote has been, and still is, a cornerstone of my whole time management and productivity philosophy.  Today, I answer a question about dealing with all the little things that pop up each day while staying focused on what is important.  Links: Email Me | Twitter | Facebook | Website | Linkedin   The Ultimate Productivity Workshop  The Hybrid Productivity Course  Get Your Copy Of Your Time, Your Way: Time Well Managed, Life Well Lived The Working With… Weekly Newsletter Carl Pullein Learning Centre Carl's YouTube Channel Carl Pullein Coaching Programmes Subscribe to my Substack  The Working With… Podcast Previous episodes page   Script | 406 Hello, and welcome to the real episode 406 of the Your Time, Your Way Podcast. (Apologies for the incorrect numbering last week) A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development, and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein, and I am your host of this show.  What happens when your productivity system collapses? Do you go looking for new apps, or do you give up and just think you're not the organised type or lack self-discipline?  People react in many different ways when their systems become backlogged and overwhelmed, yet this is a state that will happen to all of us from time to time.  Life has a bad habit of getting in the way. It throws up all sorts of problems to test us. No one week or even a day will ever be the same. Only five minutes ago, my plan to take Louis out for our walk at 2:00 pm was changed by my wife asking if we could go at 12:30. That way, I could pick her up from her dance class and then go to the reservoir for his walk.  And that was a small change.  These little things are hitting us every day and disrupting our systems, yet that doesn't mean our systems are broken. It just means we need to ensure that we have sufficient buffer and flexibility built in. This week's question is all about what to do when, for whatever reason, your system begins to collapse, and you have backlogs of work, emails, messages and commitments, and you have no idea how to regain control.  Now, before I hand you over to the Mystery Podcast Voice, just a heads up to say if you are considering joining next week's Ultimate Productivity Workshop, there are only seven days left before the first session.  The workbook will be going out next week, and I would love for you to join me. This is your opportunity to get to grips with the COD and Time Sector Systems, where you can ask questions and come away with not only the knowledge, but with a rock solid system that is flexible, automatic and leaves you with enough time for the things you want to do.  PLUS, you also get, for free, four of my courses to help you go deeper in your own time.  I will put the details in the show notes, and I hope to see you next Sunday.  Now, let me hand you over to the Mystery Podcast Voice for this week's question.  This week's question comes from Nick. Nick asks, “ Hi Carl, all my professional life I have tried to be organised and focused, but every time I feel I have found the solution, something happens either at work or at home that destroys my plans. How do you suggest someone go about dealing with disruptions all the time?  Great question, Nick, and thank you for sending it in.  Much of what causes us these issues has little to do with our systems. It's just life getting in the way.  Yet, what we are aiming to do is turn managing our time into a routine. Something we just do.  For instance, I would feel uncomfortable going to bed not knowing what my appointments and important tasks are for the next day. It doesn't take long—five minutes tops —but most days it's likely less than two minutes.  This is why I cannot get my head around it when people tell me they are too exhausted to plan the next day. It's no more than five minutes! You only need to know when and where your appointments are and what your one or two most important tasks are. It takes a minuscule amount of energy to do it.  Those two minutes have a profound effect on my day.  Last night, I went to bed knowing that I had six hours of meetings today and one critical task to do. I knew if I was diligent, I would be able to complete my meetings and that one task.  The fact that my wife has already changed my plan has not caused me to drop the task. My original plan to do it after my morning calls finished has changed. I will now do it when I get back from taking Louis for his walk.  What matters is that when I finish today, I can look back knowing I have what matters done.  This all begins with respecting the basics. Those basics are contained in COD. Collect, Organise and Do.  You need a way to collect everything that comes your way throughout the day. This needs to be something you trust. That could be a task manager or a daybook (a notebook you use to manage your day).  Then, at some point in the day, you process and organise what you collected. That could be the first thing in the morning or the last thing you do before you finish your workday. If you're doing it every day, you won't need a lot of time for this part of the process.  If you're inconsistent with it, you will need more time. This is why I suggested you turn these things into routines—things you just do every day. Like brushing your teeth when you wake up, or washing the dishes before you go to bed.  Finally, the daily planning, where you decide which tasks you must do that day and review your calendar for the next day's appointments. These steps give you a clear plan for doing the work.  The great thing is that none of these steps takes a lot of time. Perhaps the processing and organising will take about 10 minutes. However, I find that this step is calming. It allows me to ensure I am not trying to do too much or limiting my flexibility.  So, step one, Nick, is to make following the principles of COD a non-negotiable part of your day.  For those of you who have not discovered COD yet, I have a free 45-minute course that walks you through the process and shows you the tools and formulas to build this into your day. I will leave the link in the show notes. The next consideration is how you are organising your work.  There are some things that need to be done every day. Responding to your actionable messages (email, Slack, Teams, etc.) and any daily admin, for example. Salespeople often need to record their daily activities. Now you could do this once a week or do it daily. I find that doing it daily keeps the time required to a minimum.  Then there are your tasks. Now, some of these may need to be done today or before the end of the week. Others may not be quite as urgent, so you can push them out of sight until next week or even next month.  This is why I recommend you organise your task manager by when you will do something. Anything that needs to be done this week goes into a folder called “this week”. This means you are not being distracted by tasks that don't need to be done this week, and it helps to keep your task list to a minimum. This prevents your lists from becoming overwhelming.  The other good thing about this approach is that the 40% of the tasks you think you will need to do that never actually need to be done can be deleted during your weekly planning. (That's one of my favourite parts of doing the weekly planning) This is the essence of the Time Sector System. It's not about how much you have to do; we all have far more to do than the time available to do it. It's about when you will do it.  There are two sides to the time management equation. Time and stuff to do. The time side of the equation is fixed. You cannot change that. There are 24 hours a day and 168 hours a week, and that's it.  The only variable you have is stuff to do. That's what the Time Sector System focuses on. Getting you to decide what you will do and when.  I can now give you an update on my changing day.  When I started today, I had three meetings between 8:00 and 11:30 am.  It's now 10:30 am, as I write this, and my 8:00 am meeting went ahead as usual, but my 9:30 and 10:30 meetings have both cancelled.  When I planned my day yesterday, I accounted for all my meetings going ahead, and I would write this script before taking Louis for his walk. I would start the script between 8:00 am and 9:30 am, and then finish it after all my meetings ended.  I've been given 90 minutes back, so this script will be finished before I pick my wife up from her dance class. It also means I can work on an important project this afternoon, which I thought I wouldn't have much time for.  Some days you win, others you have to fight for. Today's a win. On the days you have to fight for it's important to stand your ground as much as you can. For example, had all my meetings gone ahead as expected today, I would still have had time this afternoon to write this script.  The consequences of not protecting time to write this script would be squeezing my day tomorrow, and I would likely have to work on Saturday just to catch up.  I've played that game too often in the past, and it's not worth it.  It would be tempting to blame my system, but ultimately, my decisions would have caused the problem.  So, as you can see, Nick, life will always get in the way. You can only work with the information in front of you.  But if you are consistent with your daily and weekly planning, you are putting yourself in a position to be clear about what matters each day.  Yet, your daily and weekly planning only works if you are collecting everything that needs to be collected. Appointments are on your calendar, and tasks are in a task manager. That way, you will have all the information you need to plan your days so that the important things get done, and the lower-value ones can be eliminated.  And finally, you can avoid many issues by building buffer time into your calendar. Trying to squeeze in as many meetings as you can without allowing at least 15 minutes between them is storing up problems for you later.  I try to set aside 2 hours for focused work each day and 2 hours of buffer time for the unexpected. I've found over the years that on most days, that's enough to give me the flexibility to deal with whatever comes my way.  So Nick, it comes down to following the principles of COD. Collect everything that needs to be collected. Allow yourself ten to fifteen minutes each day to process and organise what you collected. Decide when you will do the tasks, and use your daily and weekly planning sessions to map out your days so you are getting the right things done at the right time.  I hope that helps.  Now, don't forget, if you want to learn how to put all this together, have me show you how to manage your calendar and task manager and stay of top of your communications, then my Ultimate Productivity Workshop will do that for you.  And don't worry if you cannot attend all the sessions (there are only two). Both sessions will be recorded, and the video and audio files will be available shortly after the end of each session.  I hope you can join me. Details for this fantastic workshop are in the show notes. Thank you, Nick, for your question, and thank you to you, too, for listening. It just remains for me now to wish you all a very, very productive week.