Speaker 1: The Bloomberg Market Minute on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: This is a Bloomberg money minute. Federal Reserve drama is
Speaker 2: front and center on Wall Street this morning. President Trump
Speaker 2: saying he is a preferred candidate to be the next
Speaker 2: chair of the Federal Reserve, but he says he's in
Speaker 2: no hurry to make an announcement. He does tell reporters
Speaker 2: that current chair Jay Powell should resign, and he says
Speaker 2: he'd love to fire him, adding maybe he still might.
Speaker 2: The President says an announcement would be made in January sometime.
Speaker 2: The Fed today releases detailed comments from its meeting earlier
Speaker 2: this month when it cut interest rates. Meta announcing a
Speaker 2: new AI related deal the Facebook parent greened by Manus,
Speaker 2: a Singapore based artificial intelligence agent, to build a business
Speaker 2: around its AI investment. Manus sells its AI agent to
Speaker 2: businesses through subscriptions, and this could all give Meta a
Speaker 2: more immediate return on some of its AI spending. Stock
Speaker 2: futures this hour are fluctuating. Dow, SNP and NASDIAC futures
Speaker 2: all flipping between the and the green Silver recovering a bit.
Speaker 1: This morning.
Speaker 2: Denise Pelgritty Bloomberg Radio.
Speaker 1: Hey, good morning, It is eight o nine on seven
Speaker 1: hundred WLW. Steve Hawkins in for Tom Brenneman. Thought we
Speaker 1: talked to one of my favorite guests that we have
Speaker 1: every week on Tuesdays, Julie Isfordine joining me. Julie, good morning.
Speaker 1: How are you.
Speaker 3: I'm great. It's good talking to you again.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Have you had good holidays so far?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I love the holiday seasons. Everyone so happy, Yeah, generous
Speaker 5: and kind. It's a good time of year.
Speaker 1: And then New Year's happens and we've got to build
Speaker 1: healthy habits to stick to in the New Years, stuff
Speaker 1: like getting off the couch and walking to the refrigerator.
Speaker 1: Is that we may get more walking in Is that
Speaker 1: what you meant?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 5: No, and that's funny when you brought it up, you
Speaker 5: went from happy to stay there good.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 5: I think that's what's so negative about New Year's resolutions.
Speaker 5: Everyone goes, well, I'm a problem to be sick.
Speaker 3: You are not a problem to be sick.
Speaker 1: Oh, I am h What do you so? Everybody's happy,
Speaker 1: they're eating whatever they want. The clock strikes midnight and
Speaker 1: now you're on a diet. Is that what happens?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I think People start thinking about and
Speaker 5: they don't realize first of all that you're already outrageously wonderful.
Speaker 3: And try to start from there.
Speaker 5: And I think New Year's resolutions shouldn't always be around
Speaker 5: just dieting and exercise, like you're not a number on
Speaker 5: a scale, nor are you the number of calories you
Speaker 5: eat in a day.
Speaker 3: I think that.
Speaker 5: If you take a sort of a different approach to
Speaker 5: New Year's resolutions and think about.
Speaker 4: What do I wish for?
Speaker 5: I mean, Steve, what do you wish for for yourself?
Speaker 1: I want to be six feet four and one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy pounds. Neither one of those are going to happen.
Speaker 5: No, that would not be the riding of oh, I'm.
Speaker 1: Sorry, what well New Year's resolutions. The statistics tell us
Speaker 1: in the first month up to about forty three percent
Speaker 1: of the people kick quit even by mid January, and
Speaker 1: then some people go a couple of months, but nobody
Speaker 1: goes for the whole year. How do we build these
Speaker 1: healthy habits and stick to them this year?
Speaker 5: Well, just really start with the fact that you know
Speaker 5: this is not you're not transforming yourself, you're already Start
Speaker 5: with the fact that you've got some beautiful habits already
Speaker 5: built into your life and realize that you just need
Speaker 5: some more courage, discipline, and a little bit.
Speaker 3: Of great Okay, So what you.
Speaker 5: Know, if it is maybe takes several forms of healthy.
Speaker 5: You're not just looking for physically healthy change, but intellectually
Speaker 5: healthy changes, socially healthy changes, emotionally, so.
Speaker 3: You're a whole person.
Speaker 5: So I don't like when people totally focus on diet
Speaker 5: and exercise. I mean, what else is there out there?
Speaker 5: So we'll hone in on exercise and first and diet.
Speaker 4: So what can you add that really is important to you?
Speaker 5: Like, is it really something really really small, like go
Speaker 5: for a walk starting start today? Why do you have
Speaker 5: to wait for January first? It's not like you're a
Speaker 5: new person on January the first. You're the same person
Speaker 5: you always were, but just someone who is hopeful for
Speaker 5: a fresh start or looking for something new to add
Speaker 5: to their life that'll bring them both joy and also
Speaker 5: it's a little scary. So think about that. So if
Speaker 5: I were picking up a few more things that I
Speaker 5: want to change in my own life to it might
Speaker 5: be to clean up my diet just a little, to
Speaker 5: take out one food that I you know, really.
Speaker 3: Don't need and really small and then go for a walk.
Speaker 3: But maybe it also involves.
Speaker 5: Having other goals as well, like reading more or not
Speaker 5: having an opinion on everything, or not spending so much
Speaker 5: time on screens, and that will make room for other
Speaker 5: things you want to do. And yeah, if it's fitness,
Speaker 5: I've set a nice goal out there and realizing that
Speaker 5: you're not going to be perfect. You have to give
Speaker 5: yourself some grace. But the discipline, you know, it's going
Speaker 5: to require discipline, courage, and grace.
Speaker 3: So like when I was training for the Olympics, I.
Speaker 5: Don't want people to get the idea that you know,
Speaker 5: I jumped out of bed in the morning and can't
Speaker 5: wait to go running and eat right, sleep well, and.
Speaker 3: You know, be misperfect.
Speaker 4: I just realized that I just.
Speaker 5: Want to be healthier and it's really, really, really important
Speaker 5: to me. So it wasn't when I'm going to or
Speaker 5: if I'm going to run, it was when I'm going
Speaker 5: to run. So it became part of me, something that
Speaker 5: was really really valuable. Like, well, we can change it
Speaker 5: to another topic like parenting. Every person who listens to
Speaker 5: the show Who's a Parent wants to be a better parent.
Speaker 4: It's just very.
Speaker 5: Important to them. So it becomes part of you, just
Speaker 5: like exercise, just like sleep, just like eating right, it
Speaker 5: becomes so valuable to you that it becomes something that
Speaker 5: you begin to find joy with or you find ways
Speaker 5: to make it happen. So you say no to other things,
Speaker 5: Like no should be a really really important word in
Speaker 5: your life this year, because if you say no to
Speaker 5: less screen time, that means you're saying yes.
Speaker 4: To a walk or a walk with your.
Speaker 5: Spouse, or you're saying yes to a really good book,
Speaker 5: or you're saying yes to doing one nice thing a
Speaker 5: day for someone.
Speaker 3: So you see where I'm going with this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've talked about walking several times, just walking around
Speaker 1: the block or down the street. Is that a healthy habit? Yeah?
Speaker 5: You know, I'm glad you brought that up, because see,
Speaker 5: we want to complicate everything we want to you know,
Speaker 5: it's sort of like we read the newest thing on
Speaker 5: Instagram or Facebook and say, oh, I should be doing that. Well, no,
Speaker 5: keep it simple. What if you did decide today you
Speaker 5: were going to go start twenty minutes go for a
Speaker 5: walk every morning, it was your time to think and
Speaker 5: reflect or you know, think about the things that matter,
Speaker 5: or you do it with a friend. It sounds so simple,
Speaker 5: but that's the point. Those small things in life, the
Speaker 5: small things in life. You'll turn out and look back
Speaker 5: and realize that those were the big things. And it
Speaker 5: is really about consistency. It's about showing up. And I
Speaker 5: think the best part about New Year's resolutions is the
Speaker 5: fact that you're starting again. And that's what matters. That
Speaker 5: you always have the hope and the willingness and the
Speaker 5: discipline and the courage and the grace.
Speaker 3: To start again.
Speaker 5: Because life gets messy and we're not perfect, thank goodness.
Speaker 5: But if you have a you know how it goes.
Speaker 5: Life is amazing and then life is awful, and then
Speaker 5: life is amazing again.
Speaker 3: And in between the amazing and the awful.
Speaker 4: Is that normal?
Speaker 3: Consistent?
Speaker 4: I'm going to show up today.
Speaker 5: I'm going to try again, and I'm hopeful that I
Speaker 5: can be you know, just do these small consistent things
Speaker 5: and I can be just a little bit healthier every day.
Speaker 1: Sounds like.
Speaker 3: What if? Yeah?
Speaker 4: What if this?
Speaker 5: What if this was your New Year's resolution?
Speaker 3: To have a daily resolution? Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 5: To have it, to wake up every morning and say
Speaker 5: these are the three healthy things that I'm going to do.
Speaker 5: Here's one of the nice things I'm going to do
Speaker 5: for someone else. This it You know that that would
Speaker 5: be a wonderful reflection in the morning.
Speaker 3: And what's wrong with that?
Speaker 5: It's small, it's doable, it's an everyday intention.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not we.
Speaker 4: Don't have to like try to get the whole.
Speaker 3: Year in and one day.
Speaker 5: So and it it leaves room for times when maybe
Speaker 5: you aren't able to do it or you're not perfect.
Speaker 3: It just leaves more space in your life to be human.
Speaker 1: All right. Julius fordein, Hey, thanks for talking. I learned
Speaker 1: a lot here, built some healthy habits for life, not
Speaker 1: just for the New Year's. Thanks for talking. Tom will
Speaker 1: be back to talk to you next Tuesday. Okay.
Speaker 3: I love talking to you too though.
Speaker 1: Right, me too. Julius fordin with us this morning on
Speaker 1: Tom Burnaman Show. It's eight eighteen on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 1: Let's check in with Heather. Another look at traffic this morning. Heather,
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Speaker 6: some reduced speeds, no big backups, but you want to
Speaker 6: use caution. Also on I seventy one, your Victory Parkway
Speaker 6: traffic is moderate. I'm seeing posted speeds here easily in
Speaker 6: either direction. I'm Heather Pasco on news Radio seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 1: Thanks Heather. The WCPO nine first Warning weather forecast pretty
Speaker 1: much looks like this. Cold, partly sunny today, cold, few
Speaker 1: flurries can't be ruled out. We're actually going to get
Speaker 1: to twenty night yesterday and today the coldest days in
Speaker 1: the next week. We're just gonna be in the thirties
Speaker 1: pretty much till next Tuesday. All right, mostly cloudy, cold
Speaker 1: again tonight down to twenty five. Now your New Year's
Speaker 1: forecast partly sunny, high thirty five for New Year's Eve,
Speaker 1: but tomorrow night Wednesday night into New Year's Day, increasing clouds,
Speaker 1: light snow possible. There's about a half an inch or
Speaker 1: maybe one inch possible, so that could make travel coming
Speaker 1: home or two your New Year's Eve party problematic, so
Speaker 1: make sure you have a designated driver or call uber.
Speaker 1: Things like that lo Tomorrow night twenty three, same story
Speaker 1: for New Year's Day. Light snow continues, some travel problems
Speaker 1: could be there, some snow in the area and a
Speaker 1: high of only thirty two. It's called out there right
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